Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...without the loss of a single day's pay on the part of our employes, or the loss of a single automobile sale on the part of our dealers." Then why this costly shutdown? No strike, no lockout, it was a cessation of work which followed when the contract between Chrysler and its C. I. O.-unionized workers (who commanded absolute majorities-and sole bargaining rights-in eleven of Chrysler's 14 plants) expired Sept. 30. While the two sides haggled over terms of a new contract, the union gave Chrysler an excuse to close first its great...
...Eliot Hall has the part of "Mrs. Dean" in this socially- conscious play about war-killed men who refuse to leave the rosy world for a slimy grave. The play was held over when it was produced two years ago in New York, and secured its author a Hollywood contract...
...start of the fracas, what Chrysler executives wanted was a satisfactory new contract with C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers, whose old agreement had just expired. Chrysler bargained for the lowest possible wage increase, also hoped to defeat union demands for 1) all-union hiring in the corporation's plants; 2) arbitration of plant grievances, 3) a voice in setting production speeds. Only issue finally disposed of last week was the all-union shop (which U.A.W. swapped off for a tentative compromise on arbitration...
...attempt to control production," cried Mr. Keller. Roland Thomas hastily announced that the demand had been withdrawn. Far from satisfied, Chrysler's Weckler demanded a guarantee (presumably from John Lewis) that no such demand by any C.I.O. union should again be made during the life of the new contract. "Just so long as the corporation continues to drag extraneous issues into the situation," replied Mr. Thomas with a straight face, "so long will the corporation have to bear the responsibility for failure ... to resume operations...
...course, the fact that the suits against him total over $100,000 would have nothing to do with it--or the suit that would probably have forced him to live up to his contract with another recording firm. His recent polemics against the people he plays for and the natural public protest are obviously factors of no importance. And the item that one of the movie journals printed recently to the effect that Shaw was one of the most unpopular men in Hollywood because of his absolutely impossible arrogance and his hypercriticality is of no consequence...